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Create a 6 pages page paper that discusses the body as artistic and cultural expression/manifestation.

Create a 6 pages page paper that discusses the body as artistic and cultural expression/manifestation. Apart from this functional aspect, the use of the body as a starting point in artistic expression has gone rather unexplored. This essay envisages finding out the connection between body art and artistic expression and presupposes that the rebellion-aspect of body art inspires artistic expressions while the tradition-aspect blocks it.

If we consider each kind of body art separately, it can be seen that different meanings are associated with different kinds of body art. For example, body painting can enhance the beauty, impart a divine countenance, provide protection, masquerade and establish a group identity. Similarly, makeup has the function of increasing visual appeal, providing a false identity or concealing the original one, as well as establishing authority and status. Hairstyling also can enhance beauty appeal, establish a group identity or visualize rebellion. Body shaping ranges from the primitive practice of skull shaping to the modern plastic surgery, all of which again has multiple functionalities. Scarification, tattooing, and piercing have more to do with group identity and rebellion. But there are also less visible uses of body art as the use of piercing as a religious ritual and the use of makeup to convey codified meaning as in Kabuki theatre (Shildkrout, 2001, pp.2-4).

Body art has a great many things to do with our everyday lives and it is this aspect that brightens up the narrative of Meeta Kaur in her autobiographical essay, Journey By Inner Light (2006).&nbsp.

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